Holocaust Remembrance Veils Criminal Policies

WASHINGTON, DC--Last Thursday, President Bush, speaking in the
Capitol Rotunda to survivors of "The Holocaust," as part of the annual
"Days of Remembrance," said Americans are "bound by conscience" to be
sure that the lessons of the concentration camps outlast the living
witnesses. Forgotten during the "Days of Remembrance" were all the
other holocausts--two of which occurred within the United States, and
others that are ongoing.

"Hitlerism was a human catastrophe which, unfortunately,
had a precedent in the policy applied over five centuries by
the European colonialists to 'colored people'," writes Roger
Garaudy, former French Senator and Deputy Speaker, in "The
Founding Myths of Israeli Politics." "What Hitler did to
white people, they did to the American Indians,...just as
they did to the Africans, of which they deported between 10
and 20 million, which means that Africa was robbed of 100 to
200 million of its inhabitants since ten people had to be
killed for one to be taken alive during capture by the
slave-dealers."

"To speak of the 'greatest genocide in history,'" wrote Roger Garaudy, "was
for the Western colonialists to have their own crimes forgotten, as it was a way
for Stalin to mask his own ferocious repressions."

Norman G. Finkelstein, professor at the City University of New
York, whose parents survived Nazi concentration camps--all
other family members were exterminated, writes in "The
Holocaust Industry," "The number of scholarly studies devoted
to the Nazi Final Solution is conservatively estimated at over 10,000.
Consider by comparison scholarship on the hecatomb in Congo. Between
1891 and 1911, some 10 million Africans perished in the course of
Europe's exploitation of Congolese ivory and rubber resources. Yet,
the first and only scholarly volume in English directly devoted to
this topic was published two years ago."

French military analyst, Phillipe Delmas, writing in "The Rosy
Future of War," says: "The same Europe that we are now trumpeting as a
model of pacifism has been built by wars, down to the last
stone....The two World Wars--only recently fought--caused 100,000,000
deaths including 60,000,000 civilians. The Russian and Chinese
Revolutions caused at least 50,000,000 more deaths; actually,
historians have recently revised this upward to 100,000,000. As for
the 146 little wars since 1945, they have discreetly exterminated
close to 30,000,000 people, three-quarters of them civilians, and most
of them in the name of the world powers....China has endured Western
colonialism, invasion by the Japanese, liberation, and successive
Maoist revolution: all told, China has suffered an estimated
30,000,000 to 60,000,000 deaths."

Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor
at the University of California, Berkeley, writes in "Using
Atrocities: U.S. Responsibility for the Slaughters in Indonesia and
East Timor," "The massacres we do not hear about, at least at the
time, are those for which the United States itself is responsible.
This on-going, systematic suppression, from the Philippines in the
1950s to El Salvador in the 1980s, falsifies our understanding, not
just of our own history, but of all managed atrocities throughout the
world."

Regrardless of the cost in human lives, in Africa, in Iraq, and
elsewhere, divide and rule remains the policy.

Dr. Eric Herring, the Iraq sanctions specialist at Bristol
University, says that "U.S. and British decision-makers have exploited
popular humanitarian sentiment for the most cynical Realpolitik
reasons. They have no desire for the Shi'ite majority to take control
or for the Kurds to gain independence. Their policy is to keep them
strong enough to cause trouble for Saddam Hussein while ensuring that
Saddam Hussein is strong enough to keep repressing them. This is a
direct descendant of British imperial policy from the First World War
onwards [and is about the control] of Iraqi oil...Divide and rule was
and is the policy."

Dr. Robert Dickson Crane, co-founder of the Center for Strategic
Studies at Georgetown University, and foreign policy advisor in the
Nixon administration, writes: "The current tragedy [in Sudan] results
from the deliberate colonialist policy of Great Britain more than a
century ago to put two totally different peoples into one
administrative unit in order to better carry out its policy of divide
and conquer....From my own proprietary knowledge as a government
official, I know that the Israeli Mossad has tried to orchestrate the
war between the south and the north, and the CIA has funded it, for
more than thirty years. The objective is to pit black Africa against
Arab Africa and thereby reduce the Arab, and now the Muslim, threat to
Israel."

Until recently, "the Nazi holocaust barely figured in American life," says
Prof. Finkelstein. "Everything changed with the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war....it
was only after this conflict that The Holocaust became a fixture in American
Jewish life....[since then] it has been used to justify criminal policies of the
Israeli state and U.S. support for
those policies."

Prof. Finkelstein sees the federally funded Holocaust museum on the
Washington Mall as "incongruous." "Imagine the wailing accusations of
hypocrisy here," he says, "were Germany to build a national museum in
Berlin to comemmorate not the Nazi genocide but American slavery or
the extermination of the Native Americans."

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["My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It
points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers,
recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and
who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless
love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the
Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the
brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the
Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize
more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed
His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow my self to be
cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice . . . And if there is
anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that
daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people." (Adolf
Hitler, April 12, 1922, according to Norman H. Baynes, ed. "The Speeches
of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939," Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University
Press, 1942)--Chris Thiefe, "Hitler Was a Christian: The Holocaust was caused by Christian
fundamentalism," evilbible.com]

[In a much-publicized recent case, a Paris court on February 27, 1998, fined French
philosopher Roger Garaudy 240,000 francs ($40,000) -- not 120,000 francs, as widely
reported -- for statements made in his 1996 book Les mythes foundateurs de la
politique israelienne ("The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics," reviewed in the
March-April 1996 Journal). Specifically, he was found guilty of "denying crimes
against humanity" by expressing scholarly skepticism of the Holocaust extermination
story, and for "racist defamation" by citing the awesome Jewish role in the Western
media.--Mark Weber, "French
Courts Punish Holocaust Apostasy, Institute for Historical Review, March 22, 1998

[ . . . during the Second World War, a man-made catastrophe occurred within the
British Empire that killed almost as many people as died in the Jewish Holocaust,
but which has been effectively deleted from history, it is a 'forgotten holocaust'.
The man-made famine in British-ruled Bengal in 1943-1944 ultimately took the lives
of about 4-million people, about 90% of the total British Empire casualties of that
conflict, and was accompanied by a multitude of horrors, not the least being massive
civilian and military sexual abuse of starving women and young girls that compares
unfavourable with the comfort women abuses of the Japanese Army.--Gideon Polya, "Bengali
Famine, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, February 21, 1999]

[During its occupation of Taiwan, Japanese invaders killed 650,000 Taiwan
compatriots and plundered countless amounts of properties. Japan's war of aggression
against China resulted in 35 million Chinese casualties and Chinese economic losses
of US$500 billion. --"Japanese
Occupation of China, chinataiwan.org, April 17, 2001]

[Annette Insdorf . . . lists, together with the fiction films, 69
documentaries made since 1990 alone - a rate of almost one every two months.
Elsewhere she estimates that there are at least six completed Holocaust
documentaries that do not get distribution for every one that does. And the
stream has continued at flood tide into 2003.--Barry Gewen, "Holocaust
Documentaries: Too Much of a Bad Thing?, New York Times, June 15, 2003]

[. . . they knew nothing of the 1932-33 genocide in which Stalin's
regime murdered 7 million Ukrainians and sent 2 million to concentration
camps.

. . . this titanic crime has almost vanished into history's black hole.

So has the extermination of the Don Cossacks by the Soviets in the 1920's,
and Volga Germans, in 1941; and mass executions and deportations to
concentration camps of Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, and Poles. At the
end of World War II, Stalin's gulag held 5.5 million prisoners, 23%
Ukrainians and 6% Baltic peoples.

Almost unknown is the genocide of 2 million of the USSR 's Muslim peoples: Chechen,
Ingush, Crimean Tatars, Tajiks, Bashkir, Kazaks. The Chechen independence fighters
today branded `terrorists' by the US and Russia are the grandchildren of survivors
of Soviet concentration camps.--Eric S. Margolis, "The 20th Century's Worst Crime Goes
Unpunished," November 17, 2003]

[On March 14, the BBC reported that the Honduran government would investigate the
killings of 1,569 street children in the last five years. The killers may well be
"police or army personnel," according to Amnesty International, and there have been
virtually no prosecutions. Not even the alternative left-wing press gave the story
any coverage. In the Congo, 3 million have died in 4 1/2 years. Perhaps
anti-Semitism is not, after all, a high priority.--Michael Neumann, "ANTI-SEMITISM A Minor Problem,
Overblown," Los Angeles Times, December 28, 2003]

[Are the German foreign minister and the Dutch and Swedish prime ministers - after
crossing themselves and proving they remember the Holocaust - planning to remind
Israel that all the settlements, not only the outposts, are illegal? Will they
demand that Israel evacuate them? Which of the participants in the ceremony will go
to see the roads for Jews only and for Palestinians only? Will any of them protest
the laws discriminating against Israeli citizens, only because they are non-Jews -
Arabs - and threaten to impose sanctions unless these laws are revoked? . . .

This widely covered event shows that Israel has turned the liquidation of Europe's
Jews into an asset. Our murdered relatives are being enlisted to enable Israel to
continue not giving a damn about international decisions against the occupation. The
suffering our parents endured in the ghettoes and concentration camps that filled
Europe, the physical and mental anguish and torment that our parents were subjected
to every single day since the "liberation," are used as weapons to thwart any
international criticism of the society we are creating here. This is a society with
built-in discrimination on the basis of nationality, and the discrimination is
spreading on either side of the Green Line. This is a society that is systematically
continuing to banish the Palestinian nation from its land and usurp its rights as a
nation and its chances for a humane future.--Amira Hass, "Using the Holocaust to ward
off criticism, Haaretz, March 16, 2005]

[Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald and Auschwitz are household names. But who
recalls even more murderously prolific Soviet death camps like Kolyma, Vorkuta and
Magadan? Stalin told Churchill he had killed 10 million farmers in the early 1930's,
and hailed the butcher of 6 million Ukrainians, Commissar Lazar Kaganovitch, as 'our
Himmler.'

The best current estimate of Stalin's victims is 20 million murdered before WWII,
and 10 million from 1941-1953, a total democide of 30 million. Hitler's toll was
around 12 million after 1941.--Eric Margolis, "Remember
Russia's Bravery, But Also Its Crimes," ericmargolis.com, May 9, 2005]

[Mao's gruesome callousness toward human life extended to his own people. "Half of
China may well have to die," he declared as he launched the Great Leap Forward. (He
didn't quite succeed, but for a while the "Guinness Book of World Records" listed
him as history's greatest mass murderer, for having caused the deaths of 26.3
million people.)--Fareed Zakaria, "What Iranians Least
Expect," Newsweek, October 2, 2006]

[Western academics, journalists and politicians generally IGNORE the WW2
man-made Bengal Famine in British-ruled India that killed 4 million - it was
associated with a 1940s demographic deficit of 10 million, horrendous military and
civilian sexual abuse of starving Indian women and girls, and may have been due to a
deliberate, cold-blooded British scorched earth policy to discourage Japanese
invasion from Burma. This Bengal Holocaust became a Forgotten Holocaust - it has
been deleted from most British history books and from general public perception in a
continuing process of egregious Holocaust Denial. Yet it was to the WW2 Bengal
Famine that the word "Holocaust" was first
applied--Gideon Polya, "UK, US And Israeli State
Terrorism And Western Holocaust Denial," Countercurrents.org, December 21,
2006]

[Turning the Holocaust into a political asset serves Israel primarily in its fight
against the Palestinians.--Amira Hass, "The Holocaust as political
asset," Haaretz, April 18, 2007]

[Representatives of Israel's 250,000 Holocaust survivors are to demand more state
support in a protest outside Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's house.

A government offer of a monthly stipend of $20 (£10) was rejected as too little by
survivor groups"--Israel
faces Holocaust protests," BBC News, August 5, 2007]

[The company ran Bengal as a business, tripling the land tax and ordering farmers to
plant cash crops instead of rice, a policy that contributed to the Bengal famine of
1770, which killed 10 million people.--Tom Griffin, "From Bengal to
Baghdad: Three Centuries of Corporate Warriors," antiwar.com, October 16, 2007]

But before anyone could be burned, the necessary confession often took torture to
extract. The Inquisition had a forty-one point manual for this. There was flogging,
whipping, scalding, pressing. Fingernails were pulled out, eyelids sliced off.
Fingers and toes were removed one by one. The ears, the nose, the lipss were all cut
off. Legs and arms were amputated joint by joint until nothing was left but the
torso, and the living head. Then the slow dismemberment began. Jews who had fled the
Inquisition in Spain discovered that the Inquisition had come to India and found
them.--Tony D'Souza, "The Konkans," Harcourt (February 1, 2008), p292]

["Colleagues, this resolution is a recognition that up 120 million indigenous people
have died as a result of European migration to what is now the United States of
America," said sponsor Sen. Suzanne Williams, D-Aurora, a Comanche Indian.--Colleen
Slevin, "Colorado resolution compares Indians' deaths to Holocaust," Associated
Press, April 30, 2008]

Almost all the Jews in the world were now ruled by Islam. This new situation transformed
Jewish existence. Their fortunes changed in legal, demographic, social, religious,
political, geographical, economic, linguistic and cultural terms - all for the
better.--David J Wasserstein, "So, what did the Muslims do for the Jews?," thejc.com,
May 24, 2012]